In the earliest years of revolution, before the middle of the 17th century the most legal contrast for women and men in North America was their status of freedom and unfreedom. To understand the position of women under the law, it firstly discusses unfree statuses that coexisted across early America. “The year in 1604, and England is about to establish a colonial presence in North America… For each of England’s North American colonies, sexual morality will become a conspicuous and controversial issue.” Life in early colonial America was very hard. Women living in the country were expected to help the men in a variety of hard labor tasks inside the home, and not the outside world. They were expected to get married, have children, work in the
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The role of the native Indian women was equally important to that of the men and they had powers. In general, American Indian men were liable to battle, hunt and interact with outsiders, so they had more public roles. On the other hand, women managed internal operations of the community. Native American women were generally managed the internal operations of the community, and took care of the day to day operations of family life. Their work varied to the environment in which they lived but they usually owned the family’s housing and household goods, involved in agricultural food production and collecting of foodstuffs, and reared the children. Medicine women were also responsible for gathering herbs, preparing medicines and nursing the sick. They did all the traditional and manual labor. Their strength was also necessary to the survival of the tribes. Because the women had a voice and their voices were heard, they held important economic, social, and political power. For example, in many North American societies, such as the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederation practiced through women as matrilineal descent. The women selected men to serve as their chiefs, and they failure chiefs if they fail to satisfy. In Native American creation stories, the woman created life, gave birth to children, created the earth, from which plants and animals appear. “Seventeenth-century colonists certainly
The role of the native Indian women was equally important to that of the men and they had powers. In general, American Indian men were liable to battle, hunt and interact with outsiders, so they had more public roles. On the other hand, women managed internal operations of the community. Native American women were generally managed the internal operations of the community, and took care of the day to day operations of family life. Their work varied to the environment in which they lived but they usually owned the family’s housing and household goods, involved in agricultural food production and collecting of foodstuffs, and reared the children. Medicine women were also responsible for gathering herbs, preparing medicines and nursing the sick. They did all the traditional and manual labor. Their strength was also necessary to the survival of the tribes. Because the women had a voice and their voices were heard, they held important economic, social, and political power. For example, in many North American societies, such as the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederation practiced through women as matrilineal descent. The women selected men to serve as their chiefs, and they failure chiefs if they fail to satisfy. In Native American creation stories, the woman created life, gave birth to children, created the earth, from which plants and animals appear. “Seventeenth-century colonists certainly